Hunt is on for Diet Drug

By

Scott Hensley

Jun 15, 2007 8:20 am ET

There’s a feeding frenzy under way for the weight-loss aid called alli. At a Walgreens in Santa Monica, Calif., the nonprescription fat-blocker from GlaxoSmithKline was almost sold out in the first four hours it was on the shelf, the Los Angeles Times reports. “I have never in my life experienced anything like this,” the store’s […]

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